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The Trouble with Triples

What do the American bison, western gorilla, and Eurasian eagle-owl have in common? One answer is that they are all s...

Written by James Holloway • 07 Dec 2020 • Read/Listen →

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It Belongs in a Museum

In January 2010, two journalists knocked on the door of 84-year-old Frenchman Jacques Bellanger to ask him about the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →

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A Wealth of Insight

At the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, social psychologist Paul Piff paired off approximately 200 u...

Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →

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The Unknown Father

Alois Schicklgruber was never quite certain who his father was. Born in 1837, Schicklgruber was the child of Maria An...

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →

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The Overlooked Amendment

"Article the Second" was a single-sentence amendment written by James Madison in 1789, intended to be added to the Un...

Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →

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One Small Step for a Man

During the development of the Apollo moon missions in the early 1960s, the newfangled government agency called “NASA”...

Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →

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Half a Thought

The smallest denomination coin ever circulated in the United States was valued at five milles, equivalent to one 200t...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →

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Let Us Be Joyful

Laßt Froh Uns Sein ("Let Us Be Joyful") is a short musical canon in B-flat major for six voices, written by the celeb...

Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →

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It’s Not Rocket Science

One of the most dramatic surgical procedures still performed on human patients is the hemispherectomy, or the removal...

Written by Marisa Brook • 05 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →

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Misguided Missiles

In April 1929 in the town of Naco, Arizona, the Cristero War was raging just over the border in Mexico. Rebels in tha...

Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Sep 2020 • Read/Listen →

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